Those of you who have been following our Graduate Team Twitter Feed will have noticed we have been running a regular campus event using the hashtag #lawasabusiness (LaaB) but what is this all about? The idea behind LaaB was to give students an insight into some of the key business concepts that lawyers need to think…

You may have noticed that the Graduate Blog has been quiet for quite some time. In part this is because the summer is always a busy time for the Graduate Team with vacation placements to be run and training contract applications to be considered. This summer was no different and we were delighted with the…

International law firm Pinsent Masons today announces preliminary details of its unaudited results for the financial year to 30 April 2013. Provisional turnover was £309m, up 5% on the previous year. This figure strips out the effect of the merger with national law firm McGrigors. The legacy firms had a notional combined turnover of £294m…

It is inevitable that graduates will continue to flood into the City of London to find jobs following university. They are drawn by its variety of opportunities, position as a financial centre of the world and vibrant social life. However, it is rare to experience the buzz of such a working life prior to gaining…

At Pinsent Masons we are very keen to ensure that each of our offices becomes something of a hub for businesses in the local area; this is why we regularly run a variety of events that clients, potential clients and other intermediaries (including competitors) can attend in order to make connections and broaden their professional knowledge….

It is that time of the year when our Gap Year Students fly the nest and take a well-earned break before heading off to start their university studies. Although the placement is typically only eight months (some students have agreed with their individual practice areas to extend theirs beyond this) it never ceases to amaze me how much the students…

It has been a while since our last blog post, in no small part this has been down to the flurry of activity relating to vacation scheme recruitment, which took place at many firms across February. I hope that all of our readers managed to secure a placement with at least one of their target firms, and…

PRIME is the legal profession’s commitment to ensuring fair access to work experience for students from less privileged backgrounds or those who don’t have the right contacts to call upon.Together with 21 other law firms, Pinsent Masons co-founded PRIME in 2011 to give over 750 students each year the opportunity to undertake a structured week…

There is plenty of advice out there about how to secure a vacation placement. Indeed our Gap Year students recently wrote an excellent blog post about preparing for interviews; but what about when you actually secure that elusive placement, how can you try to ensure that you maximise your chances of converting the placement into a training…